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Do you think buying silver jewellry is a good idea?

ok, so far, I know that silver vs. gold, silver jewellry is the only thing you can get in pure form (or even close, the highest carat gold I've seen for sale is 18). And I know, thanks to the silver evangelists here on stormfront, silver coins (old us half dollars and dollars), bullion, and liberty dollars are what I should buy. But, I see the following advantage to buying jewellry(I'm beginning a collection of sterling silver thor's hammes of different shapes, sizes, and places I buy them from):
It won't be tracked like buying bullion online will. And if the machine starts to fail, you bet your ass that the fed will come knocking.
The downside is price. But, Think of it this way: So what if it costs more federal reserve notes. They aren't real money.

If anyone could explain how pure sterlling is, as well as other numistatic jargon, I'd appreciate it.

The good thing about silver jewelry is that if you buy the right stuff even if silver stagnates or the world doesn't fall apart tommorrow, you can always give it to lady friends. And sometimes the pay off there far exceeds anything the market will do. Silver coins and ingots just don't have the same effect. Jewelry probably has better trade value in a crisis. However, I would stick to girly themed jewelry. Anything that a man can give to a woman to woo her has more value then the silver in it. Anything that a man can't give to a woman to woo her, has only melt down value.

So where could someone get quality silver jewelry wholesale instead of retail?

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Re: Do you think buying silver jewellry is a good idea?

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Originally Posted by Jewdar

Buy silver bullion off ebay or buy pre 1964 US coins which are 90% silver.

When you buy JEWelry you never know what you are getting.

Oh, I intend to.

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Originally Posted by sparrow

The good thing about silver jewelry is that if you buy the right stuff even if silver stagnates or the world doesn't fall apart tommorrow, you can always give it to lady friends. And sometimes the pay off there far exceeds anything the market will do. Silver coins and ingots just don't have the same effect. Jewelry probably has better trade value in a crisis. However, I would stick to girly themed jewelry. Anything that a man can give to a woman to woo her has more value then the silver in it. Anything that a man can't give to a woman to woo her, has only melt down value.

So where could someone get quality silver jewelry wholesale instead of retail?

I agree, it will be better for trading in a crisis. Also, I don't know about keeping it girly themed, I wear the only piece I own. (It's a thor's hammer.)
While, yes, it could be useful for such, I'm more worried about shtf-use and avoiding bullion confiscation.

And, it would be useful to be able to wear your own money. Unless you have a lot of women, you should balance the girly stuff with the stuff you could wear.

I agree, it will be better for trading in a crisis. Also, I don't know about keeping it girly themed, I wear the only piece I own. (It's a thor's hammer.)
While, yes, it could be useful for such, I'm more worried about shtf-use and avoiding bullion confiscation.

And, it would be useful to be able to wear your own money. Unless you have a lot of women, you should balance the girly stuff with the stuff you could wear.

In a SHTF senario, you probably don't want to be publically wearing anything that might catch the eye of someone better armed then you. I would go further and say that in a true SHTF senario silver of any type isn't going to have much trade value, and yet at the same time conspicious flashing of "bling" is just going to attract the wrong attention from the wrong people. I can see a situation where a person might try to kill you for your silver, and yet people with useful trade goods won't trade for it.

Maybe the better question to ask in analysis is... who do you expect to trade with, and why would they want a thor's hammer? My guess is that the value of the silver content in your jewelry is far less then the price you paid for it. So the real value of silver & silver jewelry in a crisis is going to be a matter of perception. Your product needs to appealing to as large a group of people, not just those willing to take it for melt down value.

I think that silver's value is not in a chaos senario, but in a slow decline senario, where civilizaiton decays and inflation destroys money, but silver holds it relative value. (If you are lucky.) And silver jewelry has the added advantage that people like to decorate themselves in shiny things.

While you're hording precious metals in a vault for the long-awaited collapse of society, I'll be using funny money to buy food, invest, pay bills etc. Good luck.

I hope this poster is joking, if not--what an idiot!

It IS in fact a really crappy way to invest. I have about $20k in old silver coins, sitting in storage--I also have gold and palladium as well. It's money I won't touch due to the volitility in financial markets today. There isn't much else that's stable today and if you're thinking about your family think about one thing.

About Weinmar, Germany, during the worst of the hyperinflation, there was a saying. "A wheel barrel could have bought you a loaf of bread, but a gold coin could have bought you a building."

I'm doing other things as well, but minimum, some old silver coins will also have the psychological advantage of "money" in a SHTF scenario.

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It IS in fact a really crappy way to invest. I have about $20k in old silver coins, sitting in storage--I also have gold and palladium as well. It's money I won't touch due to the volitility in financial markets today. There isn't much else that's stable today and if you're thinking about your family think about one thing.

About Weinmar, Germany, during the worst of the hyperinflation, there was a saying. "A wheel barrel could have bought you a loaf of bread, but a gold coin could have bought you a building."

I'm doing other things as well, but minimum, some old silver coins will also have the psychological advantage of "money" in a SHTF scenario.

I'm not an idiot and I'm under no illusions about the stranglehold the US dollar is in. Indeed, it's always a good idea to have precious metals stashed away, but I'm also not interested in hyserical rhetoric, i.e. "Who cares what it costs! It's fake money anyway!" He won't be singing the same tune if the price drops 50% a couple of years down the road.